Ep 173: Tom Karako on America’s Iron Dome

School of War · Jan 31, 2025 · 30m

Tom Karako, Senior Fellow and Director of the Missile Defense Project at CSIS, joins the show to discuss what President Trump’s executive order on missile defense portends.

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Times

• 01:15 Introduction

• 02:08 Dawn of missile defense

• 05:50 Ups and downs

• 10:40 Arguments against

• 14:50 Capabilities

• 18:45 A layered defense

• 22:20 Cost

• 26:42 Tried and tested

• 28:21 A “Pearl Harbor” Pearl Harbor

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